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HANDLE.

(No Model.)

No. 407,898. Patented July 30, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVARD P. NOBBS, OF W'ATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN RING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,898, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed March 6, 1889.

Serial No. 302,113. (Nb model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD P. NOBBS, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Eyes for Drawer Handles, of which the following is a specification.

Drawer-handles have heretofore been connected to the drawer by screw-shanks having at one end an eye for the reception of the handle and a nut at the other end within the drawer portion for holding the shank in position. These drawer-shanks have sometimes been of wire flattened and bent up to form the eyes, the parallel portions passing into washers.

My improved eye is made of eithera round or polygonal wire bent up to form an eye, and with the end of the wire parallel and adjacent to the body of the shank, and of a sufficient length to form a stop for holding the eye at the proper distance from the surface of the drawer, the wire shank passing through a hole in the drawer, and being screw-threaded to receive the nut by which the eye is held in its position upon the drawer.

By this improvement the drawer-eye is made, and a portion of the shank to project from the handle-plate, and the end of the wire that forms a stop also serves to hold on the front or ornamental plate of the handle, thus rendering any other or separate fastening for such plate unnecessary.

I11 the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the drawer-handle eyes and plate. Fig. 2 is a section of a portion of a drawer-front, and Fig. 3 illustrates the recess in the plate for the end of the stock in larger size. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 show the screw-eye with attaching pins or rivets, Fig. 6 being an edge View of the screw-eye shown in Fig. 5.

The drawer-front A and the ornamental plate B are of any ordinary character, and C represents the drawer handle or pull. This handle and the ornamental plate may be of any desired design, size, or shape. The ends of the handle, however, terminate as round or cylindrical projections standing toward each other, as seen in Fig. 1, or away from each other, as in ordinary handles. The eyes for the handle are each formed of wire, usually round; but such wire may be polygonal in section and of the proper strength and stiffness. This wire is bent to form an eye 2 at the junction of the shank 3 and the stop 4, the shank 3 and stop 4 being close together and parallel to each other, or nearly so, and the shank 3 is screw-threaded for the reception of the nut 6. After the eye has been bent up to shape it may be more or less flattened or ornamented upon its faces, and the end of the stop 4. is at the proper distance from the eye 2, so that such stop may come against the face of the drawer or pass into a slight recess therein, so as to prevent the eye turning around upon the shank, and also for holding the eye 2 at the proper distance from the surface of the drawer or other article to which the handle is fastened.

It is usual to make holes through the ornamental plate B for the shanks of the handleeyes, and I prefer to recess or perforate this plate adjacent to the respective holes, so that the end of each stop 4 passes into such recess or hole in order that the eye may be kept from revolving upon the shank 3, and this end of each stop serves to press the plate B against the surface of the drawer forholding the same in position.

lVhere'the end of the stop 4 is reduced to form a rivet or pin, as seen at 7, Figs. 4, 5, and 6, the same is to pass through a hole of corresponding size and be riveted up so as to hold the eyes and plate together. Usually one such rivet or pin at the end of the stop is sufficient, as shown in Fig. 4; but there may be two such pins or rivets on each stop, if desired, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, for attaching the plate to the stops; or solder may be made use of, especially where the plate is recessed for the end of the stop.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination,with the drawer handle or pull, of two eyes, each of which is formed of one piece of wire having a screwthreaded shank 3, an eye 2, and a stop 4, the latter being at one side of the shank and extending backwardly from the eye, and the end forming an abutment or a stop, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the plate A and handle C, of the handle-eyes, each formed with a screw-threaded shank 3, an eye 2 for IOO the reception of the handle, and a stop 4: enwith and entirely at' one side of the shank, 1-0 tirely at one side of and parallel with the and the plate B, against which the end of the shank 3, there being recesses in the plate B stop rests, substantially as specified. for the reception of the ends of the stops 4:, Signed by ine this 26th day of February,

5 substantially as set forth. 1889.

3. The combination, with drawer-handles, ED WARD P. NOBBS. of handle-eyes, each formedof one piece of Witnesses: wire screw-threaded on the shank and bent T. WV. CHESSON, to form an eye, and a rearward stop parallel D. S. V. PLUMS. 

